Andrea's first full-length poetry collection To find a new beauty (Gold Wake Press 2012) takes its title from a line of H.D.'s & wrestles with the paradoxical terror & joy in the human/artistic search for "beauty" in all its strange & fleeting manifestations. The book is structured around a central narrative that develops throughout, with traditional (including some formal) poems in between. Her second book of poetry explores the nature of love, addiction, forgiveness, & ministry through a small poem of Emily Dickinson's, & was a finalist in Black Lawrence Press's Hudson Prize and made the shortlist for Eyewear Press's 2016 Beverly Prize. Andrea writes experimental as well as traditional work, often crossing genre boundaries, points of view, & artistic styles. She has won prizes with Fiction International & Able Muse, & has been a finalist in over a dozen competitions, including A room of Her Own's Clarissa Dalloway Prize for her first novel manuscript. Recent poetry, fiction, & hybrid work can be found in such UK & US journals as Ambit, Acumen, American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Litro, Measure, Mid-American Review, Meridian, Southeast Review, ​& Under the Radar, among many others. An American expat & permanent resident of the UK, Andrea lives in London but visits Chicago regularly.

​Her scholarly work focuses on multiple voices in the lyric "I" of poetry and its power for social change.

writer.Andrea is fascinated by the places in which genres, cultures, and ideas mix, and creates work that often blurs the lines between poetry & prose. She believes literature is a mirror for the strange, capricious nature of memory & writes fiction that is (like our memories) a little off-beat, dream-like, & often draws from myth. Her poetry ranges from formal to experimental & she is constantly on the lookout for fresh approaches to capturing the beauty & terror of the human & natural worlds we inhabit. She strives to create (& loves to read) literature that makes the world a kinder, more thoughtful place, where ethics matter, where unfamiliar points of views are explored, & where a voice rises above the clutter & noise of the material world so that we might find what truly matters in this brief life.

editor.Andrea worked as a poetry editor at the award-winning journal Rhino Poetry and the book review editor at Fifth Wednesday Journal during hers years in Chicago. In grad school at the U of Texas at Dallas, she served as the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Sojourn (now called Reunion).

lit crit.Andrea's academic work focuses on multi-voiced (multi-ideological) poetry and the lyric "I" as a means of understanding self and others. Her theories are founded on a belief that poetry sharpens the art of engaged listening & can be a means for social change. Chapters from her academic book-in-progress can be found in books published by SUNY Press & Palgrave Macmillan, which include her essays on Harryette Mullen and Julia Alvarez. Other chapters focus on such writers as Jorie Graham, Claudia Rankine, Louise Erdrich, and Adrienne Rich.

teacher. Andrea received a PGCE and taught primary school for most of the 1990s in the UK. After returning to the US in 1999, she received her MA and PhD and taught on the core faculty at Collin College in Texas and then for several years at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also teaches poetry and fiction workshops.

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